Radar Online had this delightful little bagatelle to deflect me from more important responsibilities. Enjoy.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.radaronline.com\/features\/2008\/02\/ralibs_oscar_speeches.php<\/a><\/p>\n Here is mine:<\/p>\n Wow. Oh boy. I wasn’t going to prepare a speech, but my Myrna<\/span><\/strong> told me I’d jinx myself if I didn’t. So, thanks, Bo-Peep<\/strong><\/span>! [Pause. Inhale deeply. Nod to Jack Nicholson.] I’d like to thank the Academy. I’d like to thank the stellar<\/span><\/strong>, visionary<\/span><\/strong> and legendary<\/strong> <\/span>actors I was nominated with. Just to be included in a group with you all is an honor. I’d like to thank my manager, Maury<\/span><\/strong>, my agent, Ari<\/span>,<\/strong> my stylist, and all the immensely talented people at New Line<\/span><\/strong>, Harvey Weinstein, Jesus<\/span><\/strong>, and Bob Hartley<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n I’d also like to thank my parents, who supported me through cough drop addiction<\/span><\/strong>. And Martin Landau<\/span><\/strong>, my one … true … love [gaze into audience]. Last, but certainly not least, we all just lost Mel Brooks<\/span><\/strong>, a truly idiotic<\/span><\/strong> visionary and stupendous<\/span><\/strong> soul. [Begin tearing.] I’d like us to take a moment to … No! Gee Willickers, Batman!!<\/span><\/strong> Don’t start playing that music, I have 85<\/span><\/strong> more people to go! My editor Thelma Schoonmaker<\/span><\/strong>, my accountant Irving Kaplan<\/span><\/strong>, my lawyer Arthur Anders<\/span><\/strong>, and my personal assistant Mozambique<\/span><\/strong>, Josh at Marble Faun<\/span><\/strong> Pictures. Brad Grey. When we started this project, Terror on the golf course<\/span><\/strong> was something no one wanted to talk about. Victims of frog attacks<\/span><\/strong>, this is for you! Thank … [Music swells]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Radar Online had this delightful little bagatelle to deflect me from more important responsibilities. Enjoy. http:\/\/www.radaronline.com\/features\/2008\/02\/ralibs_oscar_speeches.php Here is mine: Wow. Oh boy. I wasn’t going to prepare a speech, but my Myrna told me I’d jinx myself if I didn’t. So, thanks, Bo-Peep! [Pause. Inhale deeply. Nod to Jack Nicholson.] I’d like to thank the … Continue reading RAD-LIB! Write your own Oscar Speech<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1656],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-oscars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}